Life — January 22, 1920 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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“LIFE: the Council in his conception of what the coming world must have. The gist of Mr. Grasty’s criticism of Mr. Wilson as President is that in the intense preoccupation of his mind with things and theories of the greatest moment, he let lesser matters go too much to lesser men who were furnished to him, and that when the men turned out indifferent officials, he still clung to them and retained them, partly from loyalty to his helpers, partly to save himse trouble and maintain an atmosphere in which his mind could work peacefully on great problems. His worst political mistakes, Mr ‘asty seems to think, were the work of subordinates whose suy gestions went through without much consideration. Mr. Grasty blames him for not making better use of Roosevelt, and for not showing a more generous appreciation of General Wood. Hi appeal for Democratic votes at the congressional election, whic so incensed the Republicans, Mr. Grasty thinks he signed “without a moment’ consideration,” his “ single-track” mind at that time being “strenuously en the direction of Paris.” | easier for him to fall into tions that offended the Republicans t cause of “the fact that at his elbow was always Mr. Tumulty, to whom a Republican is a ‘boll-weevil.’” Mr. Grasty controls the Baltimorc Sun. In to10, as soon as he heard that Mr. Wilson was likely to be detached from Princeton, it occurred to him, he s. “that here might be found that scarcest of all men, a great editor,” a he went to Princeton immediately an: tried to engage him. He s, that if, after retiring from the presidency, Mr. Wilson should taky “the highly improbable step of entering THE PROFITEEK’S NIGHTMARE the field of industry, in a large executiv« position, like, say, the presidency of th: : : Steel Corporation,” he believes con The Most Disputed Topic dently that he would make a great st R. CHARLES H. GRASTY’S article—“ The Personality Behind the cess, President "in the January Atlantic Monthly, has to do with the most disputed subject in sight. It contradicts a good part of Mr Maynard Keynes’ discourse, reprinted lately in the N. Republic, about Mr. Wilson's performance in Paris, though it sustains in some degree Mr. Keynes’ conten- tion that M. Clemenceau at least got a good part of what he wanted from Mr. Wilson. Mr. Grasty was in Paris while the Big Four were sitting. So was Mr Keynes. Mr. Grasty was an original Wilson man, and seems still to be a Wilson man. He winds up his article with the assertion that historically Mr. Wilson “ will be member of the group of three great Presidents —Washington the Father, Lincoln the Emanci pator, Wilson the Pacificator.” That argues a very high opinion of some qualities in| Mr Wilson. Mr. Keynes is an Englishman, and it seemed to him that in Paris Mr. Wilson was helpless in the hands of keener, more dexterous and more urgent men, yet even his description leaves Mr. NOW TF YOU ARENT A:G000 LITTLE. A tes ‘ i - ARCHIST, cLE WILL GET MAD AND SHUT IN MEMORTAM Wilson much bigger than any of his colleagues in YOU UP ON FLLIS ISLAND FOR A FEW DAYS. comicbooks.com